The enemy wears a mask, concealing her whole face.

Ace: Looks like we have no choice but to fight our way here.

Julie: Now that we're in the middle of the woods, we don't have anywhere else to go...

C: What are you two babbling about..

Ace: Julie, prepare for combat!

Julie: Understood!

C dashed towards Ace and brought out her knives.

Julie prevented her from going any further by using her axe to block her.

Julie: Your opponent is gonna be me.

C: Very well.

C threw her knives at Julie.

Julie spins her axe to deflect the knives.

Julie: Is that all you got?

C grins.

A knife came out of knowhere and scratches Julie's arm.

Julie: Where did that come from?! Don't tell me...!?

C: Indeed. When I threw all of those knives directly at you, I directed one knife at the woods, who knew it would actually hit you.

Julie: She used the woods' ability to redirect anything to her advantage.

***

Meanwhile...

Ace is face to face against the leader of the four horsemen.

Ace: What is your goal..

FH Leader: That's none of your business boy.

He suddenly released a strong aura.

Ace: 100% strength on!

Ace charged towards the leader and clenched his fist to punch the enemy.

***

Julie: Divine beast: Tiger!

C: A Divine beast tamer eh.. In that case..

C threw another pair of knives directly at Julie.

The tiger suddenly bit the knives to prevent them from hitting Julie.

Julie: Divine Tiger form!

The tiger beast and Julie fused once again.

Julie: Let's see you beat me in this state.

C: What a pain...

Suddenly, Julie couldn't move a muscle.

Julie: What happened?! I can't move!

C: The knives that I threw at you actually contains a paralysis potion. This'll keep you from moving any further. I'll kill you later, for now.. you can look how'll kill your partner.

C walks towards Ace's direction.

Julie: I need... to...do something!

***

Ace was about to punch the leader, but a powerful barrier prevented him from doing so.

Ace: What kind of magic is this?!

Leader: Magic? Please, don't compare my power from those third-rate ability.

Ace: What?

Leader: It's called psychic, which is an ability given to me by the laboratory that day..

Ace: Laboratory?!

The leader used his psychic powers to pin Ace down on the ground.

Ace tries to stand up.

Leader: Give it a rest, you won't break free from my ability.

C sat down besides Ace, and aimed the knife at Ace's throat.

Leader: Any last words?

Ace: Who are you people..?

Leader: Wrong choice of words.

He then, gave the signal for C to cut Ace's throat.

C: Sorry... Nothing personal..

Julie: No!!! Ace!!!

Before C could even cut Ace, she suddenly stopped when Julie yelled.

C: Did she just said... Ace..?

Ace was surprised to see that he was still alive.

C took Ace's mask off, and she was surprised.

C: You really are... Ace..

Ace: Who are you?

C took off her mask and the color of her hair suddenly changed to white.

C: It's me Charlotte..

To be continued...